Chicken Little : A Short Story : Chicken Little's Story

One night a young girl named Lily Foster is left alone for the night in her very large country house, while her parents drove out of town for a party. This was fine with Lily especially since she had her faithful dog, Scout, and her cell phone. Finally, her parents said, ‘’Be safe and don’t go outside.’’ Lily gave them a hug and said, ‘’Of course and have fun!’’ Once her parents drove off in their car, she made herself something to eat and sat down at the kitchen table.

Trista had always been a normal kid except for her stories. It wasn't that they were disturbing or horrific, they were just unusual. Sometimes they seemed exactly like the kind of thing you'd expect from a kid, but other times, I'd have to look at her and wonder how she came up with such things. It started when she was four, shortly after our dad split, leaving the two of us on our own.

She sat on the fence surrounding her pigeon shelter with her scrawny legs dangling over the edge. She observed the pigeon’s short stubby beak as it tilted its dainty head this way and that. She looked into its black onyx beads and watched her favourite pigeon trying to lay her first egg. With her homework at hand, she eagerly kicked back and forth, overjoyed that the long – awaited day had finally come. The pigeon, with little success, tried to let the egg out. The setting sun casted the trees in their virescent hues of early spring. Papery and delicate leaves sway to the rhythm of the wind. After some time, a thunderous noise reverberated over the serene setting and set the bomb alarms wailing. The uproar alarmed both her and her pigeon, forcing the pigeon to release her first egg onto the coop’s muddy floor and it broke – the bombing had started

Perry and his siblings were forced to watch his father beat their mother. Perry recounts that he and his sibling were crying because they were “frightfully scared.” After his parents’ separation, Perry lived with his alcoholic mother who allowed him to “run as free & wild as a coyote” without teaching him right from wrong. After living with his mother, Perry was sent to an orphanage, where nuns routinely abused him for wetting the bed. After he contracted pneumonia from this, his father took him away to live in Alaska. Later, his father even tried to shoot Perry. Further evidence of trauma, Perry had a reoccurring dream about a larger bird that saves him from bullies, abusers, and anyone who might cause him

In “A Barred Owl,” Wilbur constructs a singsong narrative of two stanzas with three couplets each. This arrangement provides a simple and steady rhythm that echoes the parents’ crooning to their child when she is frightened by “the boom / [o]f an owl’s voice” (1-2). A light-hearted tone is established when they “tell the wakened child that all she heard / [w]as an odd question from a forest bird” (3-4). The parents’ personification of the owl makes it less foreign and intimidating, and therefore alleviates the child’s worry. The interpretation of the hooting as a repetitive and absurd question — “Who cooks for you?” — further makes light of the situation (6). The second stanza introduces a more ominous tone by directly addressing the contrasting purposes words may serve given a speaker’s intention. While they “can make our terror bravely clear,” they “[c]an also thus domesticate a fear” (7-8). This juxtaposition is

“The officer inspected the little scarecrow in front of him. The kid needed a bath, a haircut, a nose-wipe, and a good deal of ointments” (201). This comes from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The scarecrow is actually an English schoolboy named Ralph. When the schoolboys are traveling on a transport plane in the midst of World War II, it is shot down. As a result, Ralph is stranded with other classmates on an uninhabited island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. They attempt to create order with structured pseudo-government and Ralph is appointed the chief of the boys. As chief, Ralph takes it upon himself to devise a plan for them all to safely return home. They would light a signal fire on a hill, and pray that a boat sailing past might

“Been working for days now. And look…. And they keep running off. You remember that meeting? How everyone was going to work hard until the shelters were finished…. All day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else. They’re off bathing, or eating, or playing.”

When the going got tough Louie, Pete, and Mac resorted to things the average person would never do. They were so hungry that they caught a bird and “Louie was so famished that he went at it with his teeth, ripping the feathers loose and spitting them out in whuffs” (Hillenbrand 158). Louie and Pete eventually ended up in a Japanese POW camp and the survivability of the situation does not get any better. A monster that would haunt Louie long after the war nicknamed “the Bird” would seek him out and beat him. A theft incident would lead to the Bird ordering a punishment on Louie and two other men.

His entire life was filled to the brim with challenges to overcome. And yet he always found a way to jump the hurdle that is life. The Bird, whose overall goal was to break Louie, could not even dent the surface: “The Bird continued to beat him, every day. As his attacker struck him, Louie bore it with clenched fists and eyes blazing” (258). He was knocked down repeatedly; however, Louie could not be broken. Louie’s resilience as a POW was his key to entering the house of survival: “He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: ‘He cannot break me’” (302). All of the mind strengthening conversations and on the raft proved useful throughout his experience as a POW, and Louie’s hopeful attitude lived on. Although his body was shattered, his will remained strong and the ultimate survival cake was made with the perfect combination of resilient, unbroken

“It will be fine! Don’t worry so much Max!” Just a minute later Sam was wrestling the muddy pig. Sam’s Face hit the mud hole with tremendous force. As he wiped the mud from his eyes Sam heard his brother loudly pronounce, “You are going to be in big trouble when we get home!”

Smith waiting frantically, “Gosh Isiah you scared me, you’re lucky I covered for you guys”

‘The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.’ Throughout his life- as a child, poor and meanly treated, as a foot-loose youth, as an imprisoned man- the yellow bird, huge and parrot- faced, had soared across Perry’s dreams, an avenging angel who savaged his enemies or, as now, rescued him in moments of mortal danger (Capote

It was the first day of practice for Frank as a Hawk. He was really excited to meet new people and get better. Frank’s teammates were really good and he couldn’t keep up with them. When Frank got home he started crying to his mother because he was not as good as the other boys. He stayed up all night

As Greg was walking he realized that Adam Wasn't following him. He turned around and Adam wasn't there. He looked around and found a ladder

The sounds of the birds was unpleasant, it was endless cries and screeches. As I looked around, I realized that I was just in a plane crash in the middle of the Amazon jungle. Immediately a panicking thought was in my head, Dakota, Mark, Leo, where are you!. A small voice came from the other side of the plane wreck, it was Leo and Mark, “ where’s Dakota, Mark had a horrid look on his face, “I- I don’t know I thought he was with you or something” “ look!” said Leo he’s over there, “ what where” said Mark and Trent under the that sheet of metal, they swiftly went over and pulled him out under the metal. “Hi guys you found me”, “of course we did said Leo, can you stand up through”, “yes just grab my arm”. They slowly lifted him up. “ now what? Said Mark”, Grape all the supplies we you can said Trent”. As they moved around picking anything they could use, they all dropped the items into a pile. Duct Tape, a hunting knife kit, a fire starter, little food, and a flare gun. “Come on we need to get moving, if you want to get help” said